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A growing area of focus is analytics developer experience, and for good reason. As with applications, analytics teams need to respond to business needs in an agile manner, and developers play a crucial role. But how exactly does developer experience fit into the broader scheme of things? I asked Mark
Anyone who believes that digitization has made the issue of insurance fraud go away is unfortunately wrong. One in ten reported damages and claims are still invented or manipulated. The cost: at least €5 billion per year in Germany alone for property and casualty insurance. In other words, not even including
The current excitement about self-service analytics centres around two main areas. The first is the rise of ‘citizen data scientists’, business users who are using self-service analytics to produce insights. They are drawing on a combination of their knowledge of the business, a level of comfort with analytical technology and
As a part of my work, I often meet organisations, mostly in manufacturing and retail, who would like to adopt advanced analytics but are not sure where to start. One reason being that advanced analytics has been an ‘intellectual property’ of a core group of people. It is often accused of being complex to
APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are everywhere. We use them every day, whether we are aware of it or not. They are basically the bridges that enable one piece of software to talk to another - Uber’s app to Google Maps, for example, or Amazon’s Alexa to music-playing services or train
Almost all organizations (98%) see challenges in complying with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The biggest challenge is to know when enough has been done to comply. Organizations are looking for clearer guidelines on this. GDPR, the new European regulation on data protection, really should be on the agenda